Green Mobility Magazine Issue VI
The Seamless Transition?
Europe is transforming transport on multiple fronts. But do the different pieces of that transition actually join up?
The transition to cleaner, more efficient, and more connected mobility depends on far more than individual technologies or regulatory targets. Vehicles depend on energy and infrastructure. Modal shift depends on attractive, reliable, and connected services. Cross-border mobility depends on interoperable networks, rules, and systems. New fuels depend on production, distribution, and investment. Digital mobility depends on common standards, data, and governance.
Issue VI of the Green Mobility Magazine will examine whether the policies, infrastructure, energy systems, technologies, and services underpinning the transport transition are developing together, and what happens when they do not.
The Editorial Proposition
The Seamless Transition? is not principally an issue about seamless journeys, nor does it assume that the transport transition can or should be perfectly seamless.
Rather, it is an examination of interdependence: where the different components of the transition connect, where fragmentation remains, and which missing links risk slowing or undermining progress.
At its heart is a simple question: What needs to connect for the transport transition to work?
Why Now?
The transport debate is increasingly moving from target-setting towards implementation. Across road, rail, aviation, maritime transport, public transport, and logistics, the challenge is no longer only to define the destination. It is to align the systems required to reach it.
Decarbonisation, infrastructure, energy, industrial policy, digitalisation, competitiveness, and passenger mobility are increasingly interdependent. Progress in one area often depends directly on progress in another.
Electrification requires charging infrastructure, sufficient grid capacity, and industrial capability. Alternative fuels require production, distribution, infrastructure, and investment. Modal shift requires capacity, connectivity, and attractive services. Cross-border mobility requires interoperable networks, operators, and rules.
The question for 2026-27 is therefore increasingly not simply what should change, but whether the different elements of that change are working together.
Areas of Exploration
Journeys and users: multimodal and cross-border travel, ticketing and payment, passenger rights, disruption, accessibility, MaaS, rail-air integration, public transport, and first- and last-mile connectivity.
Networks and infrastructure: rail and road networks, ports and airports, TEN-T, urban nodes, freight corridors, logistics, infrastructure capacity, and interoperability across modes and borders.
Decarbonisation and energy: electric vehicles, charging, electricity grids, alternative fuels, refuelling infrastructure, aviation and maritime fuels, fleet renewal, and the relationship between transport and energy policy.
Industry and investment: industrial capacity, supply chains, technology deployment, investment, financing, competitiveness, and Europe’s ability to deliver the technologies and infrastructure required by the transition.
Policy and governance: coordination between European, national, regional, and local policy, regulatory coherence, funding, standards, the Single Market, and the relationship between transport, climate, energy, and industrial policy.
Data and digital systems: interoperable data, digital ticketing, standards, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, information sharing, and digital governance.
Editorial Approach
The issue should balance diagnosis with solutions.
Contributions should not simply identify another example of fragmentation. They should help explain why a gap exists, what its consequences are, where integration is already working, and what policymakers, industry, operators, and other stakeholders could realistically do differently.
The theme should also remain open to challenge. Contributors may question whether seamlessness is achievable or even desirable, examine trade-offs between competing objectives, or identify areas where technological, economic, or political constraints make integration difficult.
Editorial Contributions
Editorial contributions are articles considered by the Green Mobility Magazine editorial team and Editorial Board to offer genuine editorial value.
We welcome submissions from policymakers, academics, researchers, practitioners, industry experts, think tanks and civil society organisations.
Editorial contributions should be analytical, evidence-based and written in good faith. They may be edited for clarity, style and length by the editorial team. Editorial articles must not promote a particular organisation, product or commercial service.
Examples of editorial contributions include:
- Opinion articles
- Policy analysis
- Research summaries
- Case studies
- Interviews
- Commentary
Editorial contribution proposals should be submitted no later than the 12th of February 2027
To submit a proposal, article outline or draft manuscript, please contact:
Partnership Opportunties
The Green Mobility Magazine offers a comprehensive portfolio of tailored multi-media solutions, enabling brands and organisations to engage with and communicate with the most influential sustainable transportation stakeholders worldwide.
These include print advertising, sponsored thought leadership, thematic sections, executive interviews, events and cross-publication partnerships.
To discuss our media solutions and partnership opportunities, please contact: sales[at]ibexpub.media
~FAQs~
Can I submit an article on a topic other than “the Seamless Transition”?
In short, yes!
Every year, the Green Mobility Magazine issues ‘guiding themes’ to provide readers with comprehensive coverage of a given topic, such as the Seamless Transition. However, we welcome op-eds, studies, editorial and advertorial contributions on all sustainable transport topics. If you are unsure if your contribution is relevant, please do not hesitate to contact our editorial team.
How many pages are there in the Green Mobility Magazine?
The annual Green Mobility Magazine ranges from 48 to 96 pages.
What should I include in my Editorial contribution proposal?
The objective of the proposal is to provide our Editorial Board and staff with a comprehensive overview of your contribution. A proposal can be as brief as 100 words or as detailed as a working draft. Once submitted, our editorial team will review it and may provide feedback or ideas on how to improve the structure or content of the contribution.
How long are article contributions to the Green Mobility Magazine?
Articles can be 500 to 1000 words long (2 pages). We publish shorter and longer articles in exceptional circumstances.
What topics do you cover in the Green Mobility Magazine?
The Green Mobility Magazine is dedicated to the relationship between all modes of transport and sustainability. It is, therefore, mode-neutral and covers policy, technology, and commercial issues related to sustainable mobility.
Who can contribute to the Green Mobility Magazine?
Anyone can submit an article for publication in the Green Mobility Magazine. However, we ask that all editorial articles be written in good faith and be non-promotional. Ibex Publishing’s Editorial Team also reserves the right to make any final decisions on whether or not to publish an article in the Green Mobility Magazine.
What is the difference between an editorial contribution and a partnership opportunity?
Editorial contributions are written by individuals and are selected solely on the basis of their editorial merit, relevance and value to readers. They are reviewed by the Green Mobility Magazine editorial team and may be edited for clarity, style and length. Editorial contributions must be non-promotional and should not seek to market an organisation, product or service.
Organisations, companies, trade associations and other institutions wishing to communicate with the Green Mobility Magazine’s readership are invited to explore our Partnership Opportunities. These include advertising, sponsored thought leadership, thematic sections, executive interviews and other clearly identified commercial opportunities.
The Green Mobility Magazine maintains a clear distinction between independent editorial content and commercial partnerships.
How do I contribute an article to the Green Mobility Magazine?
It all starts with an email. Please email us at hello[@]ibexpub.media with your idea, article outline, or draft article, and we will contact you as soon as possible.
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About the fifth issue…
With a focus on delivery in what has been termed the decisive decade, the fifth issue of the Green Mobility Magazine takes the pulse of Europe’s transport transition across sectors and geographies, from European institutions to global corridors, from industrial strategy to urban mobility, bringing together interviews, analysis and case studies on how ambition is translated into implementation.
Its contributors examine infrastructure deployment, industrial competitiveness, energy systems, alternative fuels, aviation and maritime decarbonisation, logistics, public transport and cycling, addressing both the constraints and the choices shaping outcomes. For transport professionals, policymakers and investors, this issue provides a structured assessment of the decisions that will determine whether Europe sustains direction as delivery becomes more complex.
